Jeremiah 15:1. _Though Moses and Samuel stood before me_ No advocate, however powerful his intercession, could now prevail with Me. For Moses see Exodus 33:11-14; Numbers 14:13-20; Deuteronomy 9:18-20; Deuteronomy 9:25-29, and for Samuel 1Sa 7:9; 1 Samuel 12:23; cp. these two united in a similar con... [ Continue Reading ]
_Whither shall we go forth_?] If we are driven unpardoned from the presence of the Lord, to what shall we betake ourselves? The reply is a stern and even ironical one. _death_ by pestilence. Cp. Jeremiah 43:11; Ezekiel 14:21; Ezekiel 33:27, and in English "the Black Death.... [ Continue Reading ]
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_kinds_ lit. as mg. _families_. Four sorts of destructive agencies. Similar threats occur chs. Jeremiah 19:7; Jeremiah 34:20. _tear_ lit. as mg. _drag_.... [ Continue Reading ]
The latter part ("because of … in Jerusalem") may be a gloss, founded on such passages as 2 Kings 21:11 ff. Jeremiah does not elsewhere _name_Manasseh in connexion with the evil deeds of that reign. _cause them to be tossed to and fro among to shake_is the lit. meaning of the Heb. root, hence, _to... [ Continue Reading ]
_I have fanned them with a fan_ "Fan, whether verb or noun, is now practically obsolete in the sense here intended." Dr. p. 360. We should rather render, _Have winnowed them with a winnowing-fork_. The Arabic word _midhra_, corresponding to the Heb. _mizreh_here and in Isaiah 30:24, is "in use in mo... [ Continue Reading ]
_against the mother of the young men_ mg. _against the mother_and _the young men_who have fallen in battle. If we may accept an emendation of MT. by Du., we shall read _mother and suckling_. _at noonday_ i.e. at an unexpected time. Cp. Jeremiah 6:4 with note. _anguish_ The word occurs elsewhere on... [ Continue Reading ]
Co. considers the order of clauses to have suffered dislocation. He inserts "Their widows … the seas" after "… confounded" (Jeremiah 15:9), thus improving both sense and Ḳinah rhythm.... [ Continue Reading ]
_She that hath borne seven_ and therefore, from the Jewish point of view, might have thought herself secure and prosperous. Seven was the perfect number. Cp. 1 Samuel 2:5. _hath given up the ghost_ hath died. _while it was yet day_ before she had reached the evening of her life. Cp. Amos 8:9.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Woe is me, etc_.] Cp. Job 3:1 ff., also Savonarola's address to God in one of his sermons, "O Lord, whither hast thou led me? From my desire to save souls for Thee, I can no longer return to my rest. Why hast Thou made me -a man of strife, and a man of contention to the whole earth?" " W. R. Clark'... [ Continue Reading ]
Jeremiah 15:10-21. The prophet bewails his lot. God's reply The passage as a whole is one of the most eloquent and pathetic in the Book. The date cannot be determined with confidence. The latter part of Jehoiakim's reign is a fitting one to suggest. Jeremiah 15:13 are almost certainly to be rejecte... [ Continue Reading ]
The _v_. is difficult without applying considerable conjectural emendation. The whole is best taken as Jeremiah's utterance. "The Lord said "is not a formula which elsewhere in Jeremiah introduces a Divine utterance. The LXX's rendering of the passage, however, suggests that their text had the usual... [ Continue Reading ]
Also very difficult. No satisfactory emendation has been proposed. If, which is very doubtful, the _v_. is to be retained as it stands, the speaker is either (_a_) Jehovah, declaring that the Chaldaean foe shall prevail, or (_b_) better, Jeremiah, as mg. _Can iron break iron from, etc_., i.e. can my... [ Continue Reading ]
For these _vv_. which, as addressed to the people, break harshly into the dialogue between Jehovah and the prophet, and are most likely an insertion from Jeremiah 17:3 f., see notes there.... [ Continue Reading ]
_longsuffering_ mercy towards my enemies.... [ Continue Reading ]
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He describes the joy with which he first received the Divine commission. _were found_ Cp. Ezekiel 3:1, where "findest" (omitted, however, in the best MSS. of LXX) stands in the same connexion. _I did eat them_ The expression conveys two notions: (i) joyful acceptance, (ii) close union. It is howev... [ Continue Reading ]
_because of thy hand_ Thy firm, compelling grasp. Cp. Isaiah 8:11; Ezekiel 1:3; Ezekiel 37:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
_a deceitful_brook] The dried-up watercourse belies the anticipations of the thirsty traveller. Cp. Job 6:15. _fail_ lit. as mg. _are not sure_.... [ Continue Reading ]
_If thou return_ If thou wilt dismiss thy doubts and thy tone of reproach and distrust, which is virtually apostasy from Me. _mayest stand before me_ mayest be My minister. The phrase is a common one in this sense, e.g. 1 Kings 18:15; 2 Kings 3:14: cp. Proverbs 22:29. But see also on Jeremiah 15:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
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Cp. Jeremiah 1:18 f. 21 _the terrible_ The chief men in Jerusalem, probably meaning Jehoiakim and his counsellors. See note on ch. Jeremiah 12:7.... [ Continue Reading ]